Paring-knife



W. F. SAFFORD.- Y

PAmNG KNIFE.

APPLICATION FILED .I.ULY 2. 1919. 1,330,820. l

Patented Feb. 17,1920.

WALTER F. SAFFORD, F PROVIDENCE, B HDE ISLAND.

reame-KNIFE.

. Specieation of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 17, 192e.

Application filed July 2, 1919. Serial No. 308,167.

To all 'whom t may. concern.' p

Be it known that I, WALTER F. SAFFOBD, a citizenof theUnited States, residingv at- Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented new and useful Improvements in Paring-Knives,

0f which the following is a speci ation.

provide a This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in paring knives, and the primary object thereof is to provide a paring knife which is especially adapted for use with the well-known safety razor blades.

A further object of the invention is to aring lmife wherein the blade can be easi y and quickly removed and replaced by `a new blade, and to also provide means for positively holding the blade in clamped operative position in the handle, or holder provided for the blade.

Still further the invention aims to provide a novel inexpensive and eflicient holder for the. blade and means to connect same to the handle.

Further and other objects will later ap- -pear and beset forth in the course of the following description.

I In the drawings:

Figure 1, is a rear view of the device;

Fig. 2, is a front view thereof, and

Fig. 3, is an enlarged section on line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

In proceeding in accordance with the invention, a preferably wooden handle 1, is employed, of the shape depicted in the drawings. To one end of the handle the holder is secured, the latter embodying a neck 2 formed with wings 3, providing a socket-like portion in which one end of the handle is received. In order to positively secure the neck to the handle, teats 4, are struck-out from the neck to extend into the Wood body of the handle, thereby providing a ositive vmeans of anchorage, securing `the ho der against movement in an obvious manner.

The opposite end of the holder is shaped to provide an eye cutter, or knife portion 5, of somewhat V-form, while between the vneck and the portion 5, the sides of the holder are inturned or, flanged at 6 and 7, the flange 7, belng of somewhat arched for- Amation so as to provide a clamping edge portion 8, to bear against the safety razor lade 9L' The back edge of the blade 9, is shown as having the usual reinforced backing 10, which is received in the space provided by this arching' of the flange 7 so that the backing will abut ,the part 11, of the flange. The flange, or the curled portion 6, provides a guiding or gage part which engages the object being pared and has the cutting edge of the blade 9, disposed opposite thereto, the cutting edge belng exposed 'through a slot 12, formed by striking out a part-12a, the'latter part being disposed parallel to the vportion 6, and acting to reinforce and strengthen the holder as is obvious. The part 12a, further serves as a guard for the cutting edge of the blade.

The entireholder is made of a single sheet of metal, which simplifies the production and the cost thereof. The blades can be renewed by simply forcing same past the eye cutter 5, and anew blade can be as easily inserted, the blades being held by the frictional clamping action of the part 8. In addition. both the wings 3 forming the anchoring socket and the clamp 8, as well as the gage 6,' are all formed by bending the sides of the sheet metal blank or body inwardly as shown in Fig. 1, thus simplifying the manufacture since but a single bending operation is thus necessitated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a paring knife, a handle, a holder having`a socketed portion receiving one end of the handle and having side flanges extending toward each other, a struck-out part forming a slot, said part being disposed adjacent one of said side flanges, the other side flange being formed to provide a clamp, and av blade engaged between said clamping ange and the body of the holder and being held with its cuttlng edge disposed in the slot and with its back edge engaged with the outer side portion of the clamping flange.

2. A paring knife composed of a holder having its sides' turned inwardly, the inturned portions at one end lolntly forming ahandle socket and those at the opposite end a clamp and gage, and a blade engaged with the clamp. l i

Intestimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification -in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WALTER F. SAFFORD.

Witnesses: E

BEssrE P. TooMEY,

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